Zadie Smith

I adore Zadie Smith. I say this having read only White Teeth, a short story, and some essays. While in the halfway house with its free wife, I found her YouTube. Yes, unfettered and unsupervised access to the internet means for me to listen to Zadie Smith on YouTube.  I suggest you do so, too.

The Modern Novel has a page for Zadie Smith and for White Teeth.

But, ultimately, Smith has written a first-class novel on the complexities of modern Britain and how it struggles with multiculturalism and how first and second generation immigrant families try to cope with being British while retaining their original cultural identities, yet still finding place to discuss a broader view of Britain as it was at the end of the last century – science, education, children-parents relations, relations between the sexes and, of course, religion in the modern world. It is and will remain an essential read.

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